Wyndham has partnered with Vacasa (who purchased Wyndham Vacation Rentals for $162 million in 2019) to allow Wyndham members to redeem points for 15,000+ vacation rentals. Properties will be priced the same as existing vacation rentals at a cost of 15,000 Wyndham Rewards points per room per night. Properties can be booked via http://www.wyndhamrewards.com/redeem.
Always nice to see rewards programs increase redemption options. If you see any good options feel free to share them in the comments below.
Just want to chime in that with the Wyndham Earner cards, you get a 10% points discount, so it’s actually 13.5k points per bedroom per night. Also, when calling in to book, the agent told me points redemptions are limited to properties that go for less than $500 per bedroom per night when including taxes and fees. That still comes out to 3.7 cpp, which is great value.
I recently booked 10 nights in two different Vacasa properties in Hawaii during a transfer bonus from Capitol One. Reservations are done on the telephone now, no email bookings are accepted any longer. It does not appear there will be any fees associated – the booking was straight up points with no request at all for a credit card number or fee disclosures. We’ll see how check-in goes. I was so impressed with the value – easily 3 cents/point at many properties – that I purchased Wyndham points during their recent sale, and thankfully so as we were then surprised to learn we needed to book a place to stay when visiting elderly relatives who are still very much COVID concerned. Found a condo within walking distance and paid 45,000 points for a $1,500 rental a block from the beach and town center, I paid a third of that price for the points. The same number of points would have gotten an unimpressive Days Inn room. I’ve only been doing this hobby for a few years now and am not one for aspirational vacations, not really a luxury hotel lover where I feel nickel and dimed for everything, even parking, don’t get me started on resort fees – these unique condo rentals are terrific in my opinion.
All of these are 15,000 points (1 bedroom) / night, may have minimum stays:
Seattle near Pike’s Place:
https://www.vacasa.com/unit/54185
Seattle SUPER CUTE waterfront log cabin!!!
https://www.vacasa.com/unit/17984
Near Mt Hood in Oregon:
https://www.vacasa.com/unit/60781
Adorable Tahoe A-frame:
https://www.vacasa.com/unit/5569
Kona waterfront:
https://www.vacasa.com/unit/41351
Kihei waterfront:
https://www.vacasa.com/unit/50096
Update: While booking was told that all fees are covered by the points purchase except for pet fees and something about a swimming pool heating fee??? She specifically mentioned booking and resort fees are included.
Anyone know if 2 bathrooms are allowed to stay in the 15K sweet spot? (1 bed 2 bath)
1. You gotta have either Earner or Business earner Card. Otherwise you pay 105K points for the above reservation.
2. First found a reasonable attractive property with 1 bedroom but high occupancy. This can be challenging. The property I booked had 1 bedroom but 8 person occupancy. I can comfortably fit 5 person there which is what I was targeting.
3. Called up 866-996-7937, as I am diamond I was advised to call 866 443 6181.
4. After initial account verification, the agent seemed she knows what she can do which is not much by herself but email some other entity. She got the details from me and told me that someone would call me in 24 hours.
5. I got an email next morning telling me that the property is unavailable for the last night but I saw the previous agent messed up my dates so I sent her the right ones I am looking for and I know those dates are available.
6. She confirmed back the available and also that point booking won’t have any fees and taxes- only points.
7. I asked her to go do the booking and booking confirmed in next 15 mins.
5-7 above happened over email in a span of 1 hour. I think you guys can skip all 1-4 and email
[email protected] directly with the request, I think the Vacasa bookings are getting done through this channel.
Happily surprised at Days Inn grab and go breakfasts
Very generous cashier gave me extra foods and drinks!
I have got like 100k wyndham points. Any suggestion for best redemption?
Very curious about the fees also. High fees would be a deal breaker.
I just wonder about fee. Vacasa charges a lot of fees, especially cleaning fee. If all fees are waived on rewards booking, it is worth to do. There are many houses have one or two bedrooms available.
I really detest sites that do not display the actually total price on their search listings and hide the fees until you click through. I get that the cleaning fee model more accurately represents the cost incured by the owners as most condo rentals are clean once on checkout. $150 a night for a 2 day weekend stay? Nope click through and they tqck on a $200 fee. Next property….
In the last year expedia and airbnb have started showing true totals on their search page. Vrbo has been showing true totals longer than that. Vacasa still hides the fees.
If one can book say a $400/nt 1 bedroom ski condo for 15k, I can still see value even if there are tacked cleaning fees. But we’ll see, as details are scarce.
Still waiting for that Barclays Wyndham offer – Get 60K pts, if you spend $3K, starting back in Nov. Has anyone gotten the points for this card and/or any other Barclays cards?
i’m waiting for tons of bonus points from both the personal and business card. The business card isn’t coding utilities correctly (1x instead of 5x). the personal card hasn’t bonuses me for meeting minimum spend.
Waiting for the same 50k for 3k spend from Barclays/Wyndham. Just checked the terms in their email and it says 6-8 weeks after the offer persona ends, so that would put in mid-end of march if they really want to be slow about it.
Vacasa is a good addition, if one can search inventory online before booking by phone. They mention points and cash, but have no idea how that would work.
So if it’s a 2bd rm rental it’s 30k points a night? 3 bd rm 45k points a night?
This is how usually all Wyndham Redemptions work – 2 bd – double points. Have not seen 3 bd ones, so can not say. If 1 bd = 15K, 2 should be 30K.
excellent and knowledgeable statement 🙂
Yup